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And not the praetor alone, but almost all antiquity, spoke in that way. Look you, this passage of the well-known poet Pomponius comes to my mind, from the Atellan farce entitled Mevia: ii, 77, Ribbeck.3 For six days now I've done no stroke of work; The fourth day (diequarte) I, poor wretch, shall starve to death.
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There is also the following passage from Coelius in the second book of his Histories: Fr. 25, Peter2. If you are willing to give me the cavalry and follow me yourself with the rest of the army, on the fifth day (diequinti) I will have your dinner ready for you in the Capitol at Rome. Said to Hannibal by his officer Maharbal after the battle of Cannae, 216 B.C. But Coelius took both the story itself and the word from the fourth book of Marcus Cato's Origines, where we find the following: Fr. 86, Peter2. Then the master of the horse thus advised the Carthaginian dictator: 'Send me to Rome with the cavalry; on the fifth day (diequinti) your dinner shall be ready for you in the Capitol.'
